Russia on Wednesday warned the West that it was working on a broad response to sanctions that would be swift and felt in the West’s most sensitive areas. Russia’s economy is facing the gravest crisis since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union after the West imposed crippling sanctions...
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Hosts China claimed their first gold medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Saturday in the inaugural short track speed-skating mixed relay. The team of Qu Chunyu, Fan Kexin, Wu Dajing and Ren Ziwei hung on to edge out Italy by two-hundredths of a second. Hungary took the bronze...
The birth rate in China plummeted to a record low last year, official data showed Monday, as analysts warn that faster-than-expected ageing could deepen economic growth concerns. Beijing has been grappling with a looming demographic crisis amid a rapidly ageing workforce, slowing economy and the country’s weakest population growth...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN – China has promised $40 billion in financing Africa economic growth this year as it defends itself from claims that its lending of money to Africa is creating a debt trap. Beijing has said Africa should be a big stage for international co-operation rather than an...
Five people were killed and nine others remain missing after a landslide hit a construction site in Bijie City, southwest China’s Guizhou Province Monday, local authorities said Tuesday. The landslide occurred at around 7 p.m. on Monday, according to the municipal government of Bijie. As of 7 a.m. Tuesday,...
Hundreds of thousands more people were confined to their homes in northern China Tuesday as the country battled its worst Covid surge in 21 months and locked-down residents took to social media to complain about food shortages. China — where the virus emerged two years ago — has followed...
An unprecedented fossil of a baby dinosaur curled up perfectly inside its egg is shedding more light on the links between dinosaurs and birds. The 70-million-year-old fossil preserves the embryonic skeleton of an oviraptorid dinosaur, which has been nicknamed Baby Yingliang after the name of the Chinese museum which...
The Debt Management Office (DMO) has clarified that loans from China to Nigeria, which presently stood at 3.59 billion dollars, constitutes only 9.4 per cent of the country’s total foreign debt stock of 37.9 billion dollars. Ms Patience Oniha, the Director-General of DMO made this known in an interview...
Concerned about insecurity in the country, China has offered to send a high-level delegation of criminal investigation experts to meet with Nigerian security agencies. Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Cui Jianchun disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja while speaking to journalists on the sideline of the Oct. 1, China-Nigeria friendship...
The United States continued to sit atop the latest edition of the FIBA women’s basketball world rankings released on Monday, while China stayed seventh on the rankings. The 10 highest-ranked sides are the United States, Spain, Australia, Canada, France, Belgium, China, Japan, Turkey and Serbia. Turkey moved up to...
Negotiations on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal are set to resume on Monday in Vienna amid few signs of progress and a tense atmosphere. Five months after the last round of talks, high-ranking diplomats from Germany, France, Britain, Russia, and China are returning to the Austrian capital to...
Economic and financial experts have warned the Federal Government that Nigeria risks losing key national assets to China in the event that it defaults in paying back loans obtained from China which is currently put at $3.48bn. They spoke against the backdrop of the possible takeover of Uganda’s only...